EP0611501A1 - Procede de compensation de faisceaux pour systeme de telecommunications par satellites. - Google Patents

Procede de compensation de faisceaux pour systeme de telecommunications par satellites.

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EP0611501A1
EP0611501A1 EP93900505A EP93900505A EP0611501A1 EP 0611501 A1 EP0611501 A1 EP 0611501A1 EP 93900505 A EP93900505 A EP 93900505A EP 93900505 A EP93900505 A EP 93900505A EP 0611501 A1 EP0611501 A1 EP 0611501A1
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David Palmer Patterson
Mark Alan Sturza
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q25/00—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns
    • H01Q25/007—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns using two or more primary active elements in the focal region of a focusing device
    • H01Q25/008—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns using two or more primary active elements in the focal region of a focusing device lens fed multibeam arrays
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/28—Adaptation for use in or on aircraft, missiles, satellites, or balloons
    • H01Q1/288—Satellite antennas
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction or polarisation of waves radiated from an antenna, e.g. quasi-optical devices
    • H01Q15/02—Refracting or diffracting devices, e.g. lens, prism
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system
    • H01Q3/24—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the orientation by switching energy from one active radiating element to another, e.g. for beam switching
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/14—Relay systems
    • H04B7/15—Active relay systems
    • H04B7/185—Space-based or airborne stations; Stations for satellite systems
    • H04B7/1851—Systems using a satellite or space-based relay
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/14—Relay systems
    • H04B7/15—Active relay systems
    • H04B7/204—Multiple access
    • H04B7/2041—Spot beam multiple access
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/14—Relay systems
    • H04B7/15—Active relay systems
    • H04B7/185—Space-based or airborne stations; Stations for satellite systems
    • H04B7/1853—Satellite systems for providing telephony service to a mobile station, i.e. mobile satellite service
    • H04B7/18532—Arrangements for managing transmission, i.e. for transporting data or a signalling message
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/14—Relay systems
    • H04B7/15—Active relay systems
    • H04B7/185—Space-based or airborne stations; Stations for satellite systems
    • H04B7/1853—Satellite systems for providing telephony service to a mobile station, i.e. mobile satellite service
    • H04B7/18539—Arrangements for managing radio, resources, i.e. for establishing or releasing a connection
    • H04B7/18541—Arrangements for managing radio, resources, i.e. for establishing or releasing a connection for handover of resources

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  • Satellite Communication System by Edward Fenton Tuck et al., assigned United States Serial Number 07/783,754;
  • the present invention relates to the field of satellite communications. More particularly, this invention provides a method of assigning individual radio beams from a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to delineated regions on the ground with fixed boundaries called "cells.”
  • This beam management system offers enhanced frequency coordination and communication reliability.
  • the present invention substantially eliminates the problem of rapid "hand-offs" of a communication channel among the multiple beams of one satellite or between satellites as one satellite moves out of range of subscribers within the cell and another takes over to supply service to the cell.
  • the radio beams generated by these fast moving spacecraft sweep across vast regions of the Earth's surface at the same rate of speed. If these beams were visible to the eye, they would paint bright circular and elliptical patches of light on the ground beneath the satellite which emitted them.
  • the "footprint" of the radio beams propagated by the spacecraft defines the zone on the ground called a "cell” which is illuminated by the spacecraft.
  • This satellite-fixed cell moves constantly as the spacecraft moves around the globe.
  • an "Earth-fixed cell” is a stationary region mapped onto the surface of the Earth that has permanent fixed boundaries, just like a city or a state.
  • Handover involves the assignment to the terminal of a new communication channel within the new beam or new satellite. This assignment process takes time and consumes processing capacity at both the terminal and the satellite. It is also subject to blocking, call interruption, and call dropping if there is not an idle communication channel in the next serving beam or satellite.
  • the Earth-fixed cell method avoids these problems by allocating communication channels (frequency, code, and/or time slot) on an Earth-fixed cell basis rather than on a satellite-fixed cell basis. Regardless of which satellite/beam is currently serving a particular cell, the terminal maintains the same channel assignment, thus eliminating the "handover" problem.
  • the present invention is intended to be used in conjunction with the Spacecraft Antennas & Beam Steering Methods for Satellite Communication System, which is described in a copending patent application by Douglas G. Lockie.
  • the Lockie invention comprises an advanced active element phased array antenna that utilizes electronic beam steering to provide extremely high gain signals.
  • One of the preferred embodiments of the Spacecraft Antennas invention employs a hemispherical configuration of hexagonal antenna facets fabricated from ultra-light weight honeycomb materials and advanced composites.
  • Gallium-arsenide (GaAs) millimeter wave integrated circuits (MMIC) coupled to each antenna panel handle call traffic. Each antenna simultaneously generates 256 beams which are electronically steered to 4,096 positions on the surface of the Earth.
  • each individual beam illuminates a region on the ground called an ⁇ arth-fixed cell".
  • a beam illuminates each of the cells in the supercell on a pre ⁇ determined sequence and time schedule.
  • a four by four matrix of cells forms an ⁇ arth-fixed supercell.” The entire surface of the Earth is mapped into 80,000 Earth-fixed supercells.
  • FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 present schematic illustrations that exhibit the relationships among the spherical surface of the Earth, a satellite footprint, an Earth-fixed super cell, an Earth-fixed cell, and radio beams emitted from a satellite that provide service for users within the earth-fixed cells.
  • Figure 4 is a schematic depiction showing one Earth-fixed supercell divided into sixteen Earth-feed cells.
  • Figure 5 portrays coverage provided by satellite footprints in one of the preferred embodiments of the invention and the overlaps and gaps formed by these footprints at the equator.
  • Figure 6 portrays coverage provided by satellite footprints in one of the preferred embodiments of the invention and the overlaps and gaps formed by these footprints at a latitude of forty degrees.
  • Figure 7 is a schematic block diagram which discloses a hardware implementation of one of the preferred embodiments of the Beam Compensation Method. A string of information called a packet is shown as it progresses through mapping and switching hardware which allocates satellite beams to subscribers in Earth-fixed cells.
  • FIG 8 is perspective view of a satellite that is intended for use with the present invention.
  • This satellite includes a hemispherical array of hexagonal antenna facets and fully extended rectangular solar panels.
  • Figure 9 depicts a schematic diagram of the satellite similar to the one illustrated in Figure 8.
  • Figure 9 also reveals three sets of electronically steered beams produced by the hexagonal antennas and the circular and elliptical footprints which the beams illuminate on the Earth's surface.
  • Figure 10 presents a schematic depiction of the pattern of multiple beams generated by the satellite shown in Figures 8 and 9;
  • Earth-fixed cell 14 and radio beams 11 emitted from a satellite S that provides service for users within the Earth-fixed cells 14.
  • Figure 1 reveals the geometric and numerical relationships that have been established to implement beam compensation.
  • the beams 11 emanating from a constellation of satellites S illuminate generally circular footprints 10 on the surface of the Earth E. These footprints 10, which have a radius of about 700 kilometers, are associated with a grid of approximately 80,000 Earth-fixed supercells 12 that span the entire globe. Each footprint 10 is served by 256 supercells 12.
  • Each supercell 12 is divided into a four by four matrix comprising four Earth-fixed cells 14 on a side. Every Earth-fixed cell 14 is twenty kilometers wide and twenty kilometers high. There are approximately 1.28 million Earth-fixed cells 14 covering the surface of the world.
  • each Earth-fixed supercell 12 is parallel to lines of latitude.
  • the Earth-fixed supercells 12 circle the Earth in bands, with the largest bands residing at the equator.
  • the number of Earth-fixed supercells 12 in an Earth- circling band decreases toward the poles.
  • Earth-fixed supercells 12 in adjacent bands are not necessarily aligned.
  • the terms "supercells” 12 and “cells” 14 are employed as a shorthand reference to the more technically correct terms "Earth-fixed supercells” 12 and "Earth-fixed cells” 14.
  • the cells 14 and supercells 12 defined and utilized by the present invention are different from the topography of previous communication systems because they are literally fixed to the Earth like a permanent grid of lines of longitude and latitude. In earlier systems, the perimeter of the beam footprint determined the instantaneous location of a cell.
  • Figure 4 exhibits a pattern 16 that reveals how an Earth-fixed supercell 12 is mapped into sixteen Earth-fixed cells 14, and how the circular footprints 10 from the satellites S cover the square cell regions.
  • the cells 14 in this diagram are also numbered from one to sixteen. These numerals indicate the timing assignments that represent the schedule of sequential satellite transmissions that serve each cell.
  • This cell pattern 16 insures that three inactive cells are always present between every two active cells during normal operations. In the event of a timing skew between satellites servicing adjacent supercells 12, this pattern still provides for a minimum of two inactive cells 14 between active cells 14. This separation is sufficient to eliminate signal interference between two cells 14 which are being illuminated at the same time.
  • Figure 5 is a diagram 18 that depicts satellite footprint overlaps 23 and gaps 25 at the equator for three different orbit populations. Each footprint has a radius of 700 km, and the orbital planes are spaced at nine degrees, which results in 1,000 km spacing at the equator.
  • Figure 5 presents six columns of overlapping circles. Three pairs of adjacent columns 20, 22 and 24 reveal the coverage gaps that result from different orbit populations. If each orbit in the constellation has 40 satellites, virtually no gaps 25 are encountered, as shown by column pair 20. In this first instance, the footprints 10 are closely packed, and are separated by a distance labeled "21", which is only 1,000 km apart from center to center. The second and central pair of adjoining columns 22 represent the footprints 10 generated when each orbit has only 35 satellites. The footprints 10 depicted in the middle pair of columns are 1,142 km apart when measured from center to center along the path of the orbit. The footprints shown in column pair 22 are separated by small gaps 25. The last pair of columns 24 shows what happens when each orbit has 30 satellites.
  • FIG. 6 is a depiction 26 of the overlaps 23 and gaps 25 formed by the footprints 10 at a latitude of 40 degrees.
  • the two left columns 28 show that the center-to-center footprint spacing 21 would be 1,000 km for a configuration will forty satellites per orbit; 1,142 km for a configuration 30 with thirty-five satellites per orbit; and 1,333 km for a configuration 32 with thirty satellites per orbit.
  • Figure 7 is a flow chart 34 which discloses one implementation of one of the preferred embodiments of beam compensation.
  • a packet 36 is shown as it progresses through mapping and switching hardware which directs the packet 36 to the beam which is currently serving the Earth-fixed supercell 12 and cell 14 in which the destination terminal 38 resides.
  • the incoming packet 36 possesses "node” 40 and "call identification (ID)" 42 bits that comprise a terrestrial location identification about the terminal where the call originated.
  • the packet 36 also contains location information ( ) which describes a location on or near the Earth's surface. This location corresponds to a particular portable P, mobile M or fixed F terminal or gateway G that is communicating with a satellite via one of the radio beams 11.
  • the substance of the phone call such as voice or video information, has been digitized" and is carried as the payload portion 44 of the packet 36.
  • the node 40 identifies the satellite S currently serving the destination terminal
  • the call ID 42 is used as an input to a call ID map 46, which is used as a translation device for a fast packet switch 48 that actually selects the beam 11 that will be used to deliver the payload 44.
  • the call ID map 46 identifies the supercell 12, cell 14, and channel 50 assigned to the destination terminal 38 within this node 40 as identified by the call ID 42 in the incoming packet 36.
  • a channel 50 is a portion of beam 11 that has been allocated into several frequencies.
  • Output beams are recorded in a position/output beam map 54.
  • the satellite beam 11 which is currently assigned to serve a particular supercell 12 is also a function of the instantaneous position of the satellite S which is generating beams 11 to handle a given call.
  • This position information is produced by autonomous orbit position determination software 52. Once the channel 50, cell 14, and beam assignments have been derived, these assignments are appended to the payload 44 of the packet 36, replacing the call ID 42. After mapping, the modified packet 56 is then transmitted to the fast packet switch 48, which uses this information to direct the modified packet 56 to the appropriate buffer slot in the beam 11 currently serving this supercell 12. The transmission system determines the frequency that will be used for the transmission of the modified packet 56 based on the selected channel, and picks the time slot for transmission based on the selected cell 14.
  • the time slot is 1.444 milliseconds in duration, and the frequency domain modulation (FDM) cycle for the beams is 23.111 milliseconds long.
  • the time required for communication is 1.156 milliseconds, and 0.289 milliseconds of guard time is provided.
  • the receive beams lag the transmit beams by twice the time encountered by the transit delay between the user and the satellite. This lag time varies from 6.8 milliseconds for supercells at the edge of the footprint to 4.7 milliseconds for supercells directly below the satellite.
  • the variation over a supercell 12 ranges from 0.04 milliseconds for cells 14 directly below the satellite to 0.7 milliseconds for cells 14 at the edge of the footprint.
  • FIG 9 is a schematic diagram of a satellite S that may be used to implement the present invention.
  • the satellite S includes an Earth-facing antenna array 57 comprising generally hexagonal antenna facets 58 and a space-facing array 62 which includes space-facing facets 64 that point toward the Zenith Z.
  • Solar panels 60 coupled to the antenna array 57 furnish electrical power to the spacecraft.
  • Figure 9 reveals a similar satellite S in orbit over the Earth directing a series of electronically steered beams 11A, 11B and 11C to footprints 10 on the ground.
  • Figure 10 depicts a pattern 68 of beams 11 which illuminate the Earth, providing a twenty km coverage per beam 11.
  • the beams 11 generated by antenna facets on the satellites S include 256 transmit and 256 receive scanning beams.
  • the satellites travel at an orbital height of 700 km and service cells within a 40 degree terminal elevation mask angle footprint.
  • the satellite footprint 10 measures approximately 1.6 million square kilometers.
  • the satellite antenna beams 11 that service cells 14 directly below the satellite S have a gain of 37.7 dB and half power beamwidths of 2.6 degrees.
  • the beams 11 that service cells 14 at the edge of the satellite footprint 10 have a gain of 40 dB and half power beamwidth of 1.8 degrees.
  • the beams illuminate circular spots on the Earth's surface of approximately 800 square kilometers.
  • the square inscribed within this circular spot has an area of 512 square kilometers (22.6 km sides).
  • This geometry provides 1.84 km (13%) of overlap at the cell corners.
  • the overlap 23 mitigates the effects of satellite position errors and beam pointing errors.
  • the tolerable error limits are 300 meters maximum for satellite position determination error and 1.5 km (0.17 degree) maximum for beam pointing errors.
  • the movement of the beam footprint 10 on the Earth's surface due to the motion of the satellite S is less than 12 meters over the 1.444 millisecond dwell time, and less than 200 meters during the 23.111 millisecond supercell timing cycle.
  • the pointing angles for the center of the supercell may be computed every 23.111 milliseconds, and the beam 11 is then positioned relative to this center for each cell.
  • the rotation of the Earth contributes an error to this computation, but is less than 6% of the effect of satellite motion, and the same method can be used to compensate for this motion.
  • the same method can also be used to compensate for satellite attitude motion (roll, pitch, and yaw).
  • each cell 14 is designed to provide service for up to 720 16-kilobit per second subscribers using portable terminals, and 360 terminals operating at 64- kilobits per second.
  • the beam compensation invention described above offers several advantages over previous beam allocation systems. Terminals are served by the footprint 10 of the satellite that happens to be passing overhead at the time a particular call flows through a given terminal. By allocating the beams to Earth-feed cells as opposed to satellite-fixed cells, the problem of performing frequent "hand-offs" from satellite to satellite is substantially eliminated, since a terminal keeps the same frequency (channel) and time slot (cell) for the duration of the call even though it communicates via different beams and satellites during the call. A similar system using satellite-fixed cells with each satellite footprint partitioned into approximately four thousand cells would require a cell hand-off approximately every five seconds.
  • the utilization of the beam compensation invention described above requires these undesirable hand-offs only when a subscriber using a portable P or mobile M terminal actually transits across a cell boundary.
  • the Earth-feed cell method also avoids the danger of accidentally terminating a call if all of the channels in the cell to which the beams are switched are already occupied.
  • the allocation method of the present invention that switches a call from the beams of one satellite to another is completely transparent to the customer.
  • the Earth-fixed cell technique also offers enormous spectral efficiency, since 100% of the frequencies between the cells and between the satellites are constantly reused. Similar systems using satellite-fixed cells often divide the assigned frequencies into bands assigned to satellites to avoid frequency conflicts, but that procedure is an inefficient use of the valuable frequency spectrum.
  • the Beam Compensation Methods for Satellite Communication System described above will help to overcome the limits that circumscribe the performance and potential of existing telephone systems.
  • the system is capable of offering continuous voice, data and video service to customers across the globe on the land, on the sea, or in the air. Instead of merely improving upon or expanding existing land-based systems, the system bypasses centralized terrestrial switching hardware by placing all the intelligence of the network in orbit.
  • the present invention liberates the true communications potential of existing land-based networks by routing signals through spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
  • the present invention will revolutionize the telecommunications industry, and offer a wide spectrum of services and industrial opportunities around the world.

Abstract

Des procédés de compensation de faisceaux concerne la gestion de faisceaux radio (11) qui sont générés par une constellation de satellites (S). Ces faisceaux (11) sont commandés avec précision de façon qu'ils viennent frapper des "cellules fixes par rapport à la Terre" par opposition à des "cellules fixes par rapport au satellite". Dans les anciens systèmes de télécommunications par satellites, les satellites qui ne sont pas maintenus de façon fixe en orbite stationnaire géosynchrone au-dessus d'un emplacement particulier de la Terre survolent de grandes régions de la Terre très rapidement. Dans un système qui utilise des cellules fixes par rapport au satellite, la "couverture" (10) des faisceaux radio (11) émis par le satellite définit une zone sur la Terre appelée ''cellule'' qui est frappée par les faisceaux émis par ledit satellite. Cette cellule fixe par rapport au satellite se déplace constamment au fur et à mesure que le satellite se déplace autour du globe. De façon très différente, une cellule fixe par rapport à la terre (14) est une région fixe définie sur la surface de la Terre dont les frontières sont permanentes, comme c'est le cas pour une ville ou un état.
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